Orphan Oliver - Selected According to the New Primary School Chinese Language Curriculum Standards (Pinyin Version)

Author: Charles Dickens
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Publish Date: 2006-10-01
Features: Oliver Twist is Dickens's second novel. He bravely confronts life and realistically portrays the miserable life in the slums of London at that time. He holds a noble moral purpose: to protest against social injustice, awaken public opinion, promote reforms, and provide aid to the impoverished people in dire straits. For this reason, Dickens has long been defined by scholars in China and the former Soviet Union as the "founder and greatest representative of critical realism in British literature." Dickens's writing is rich in imagination and filled with poetic passion. He deliberately emphasizes his moral ideals, often breaking away from a faithful imitation of nature, as Goethe once said: it is above nature. This is a significant difference from the objective, calm, and strictly realistic methods upheld by Sacre, Trollope, and others. The poor orphan—Oliver Twist—was cruelly mistreated in the workhouse from a young age and accidentally fell into the hands of a gang of thieves. After many twists and turns, what kind of life did Oliver lead? What happened later?